- Whose egg is this?
- Two eggs are laid in a huge nest, or eyrie, built in a tree or on a cliff-ledge and are incubated for up to 45 days.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Large gelatinous egg-masses are laid on weeds. These egg masses measure 5-6 cm in length, and can contain as many as 50-120 eggs.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Up to 300 eggs are laid at the rate of around 3-7 a day; with each egg being wrapped individually in a leaf.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Eggs are attached to rocks in protective capsules, which can contain up to 1000 eggs. Young emerge from the capsules after several months.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Each egg is deposited into a cell, and a small, white larva emerges after around 3 days. Eggs are laid from March to October.
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- Whose egg is this?
- An average of 8 live young are born from mid-August to mid-September, each encased in an egg membrane.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Eggs are laid singly on leaves of the foodplants (nettles, elm, hop, currants and willows) and hatch after two or three weeks.
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- Whose egg is this?
- A single leathery-skinned egg is laid into a pouch on the female's abdomen. It is then incubated for a further 10 days before it hatches.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Large, purplish-black eggs are laid and anchored to the floor with many long, hair-like fibres. It is likely that more than one egg is laid at a time.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Up to 2000 jelly-coated eggs can be laid together, and are popularly known as 'spawn'. The eggs hatch after around 10-14 days.
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- Whose egg is this?
- Between 1 and 13 eggs are deposited in the nest, which is built in loose soil at least 10 cm deep. Hatchlings appear after around 12 weeks.
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- Whose egg is this?
- The mysterious appearance of these 'eggs' led to the widespread belief that they were witches eggs or eggs of the Devil.
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